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Date: June 10th 1915
To
Unknown
From
Perry Sanderson
Letter

England Wed. June 10, 1915 Well, had that letter ready to go but got no chance to post it. Took the train from Plymouth about 1 p.m. and traveled up through a beautiful country. What makes it so pretty here are the nice green fields all cut up in all shapes and boxed off with hedges. Is certainly one lovely country. At Reading got a view of the Thames, where it looks like a small stream-something on the plan of the Red. When we passed through London it was dark and we passed through some rear end. It was alright to see the searchlights shooting up to the sky at different points. We also saw the barrel of a twelve-inch gun loaded on trucks, weight of it 100 ton. You can't imagine the size of it, something like a smokestack on a large building. We traveled along, got into Shorncliff at about one a.m., then marched to camp-got there at two feeling rather gaunt having only had a piece of bread and cheese since noon. They gave us some kind of a lunch and we retired in tents. Slept in this morning This is camp, solid sand, real hard. All the camp is Canadians, about 25,000. Also a camp of convalescents near us. We are quite near the shore, are going down this there this afternoon. There are nine in a tent, not too crowded. Am in the same one as Gos. They say they can hear the firing here at times from the trenches. They say an aeroplane leaves the trenches and in forty minutes passes here, goes over here every day-out and back. Saw Brimble today-the fellow from 319 Edmonton. He is happy though reports a not too pleasant day voyage [?] over, having nearly 3000 on board. Well, I will write in a day or two so goodbye, Perry Address: Pte. Sanderson, B. Coy. 28th Batt. 6th Brigade, 2nd C.E.F. Shorncliff, Eng